Schumer's Iran Moment

The senior senator from New York has an opportunity to be remembered as the guy who stepped up forcefully to contain Iran.

By

Kimberley A. Strassel

Dec. 5, 2013 6:39 p.m. ET

The Iranian mullahs might be negotiating a nuclear deal with Secretary of State John Kerry, but the man they've got their eye on is Sen. Chuck Schumer. As should we all.

As the Senate mulls exercising some necessary oversight of the Obama administration's historic fold on Iran, the member who now holds ultimate power over whether that body acts is the senior senator from New York. Mr. Schumer has spent the past week busting on the...